The end of the textile era did not end New Hampshire's industrial story; it changed its subject. Through the later 20th century, the southern tier around Manchester and Nashua grew technology and advanced-manufacturing employers, helped by proximity to the greater Boston region and by a deep base of skilled manufacturing labor.
The state's universities and research institutions, including the University of New Hampshire, contribute research and a pipeline of talent. Old industrial spaces — most visibly Manchester's Amoskeag millyard — have been adapted into offices, labs, classrooms, and startups, putting new work inside the same brick walls that once held looms.
The clearest symbol of this turn is the advanced regenerative-manufacturing work now based in the Manchester millyard, covered in the next chapter.